|CnAv. Yj 

 I'AU.vs. 14 A 15. 



20 



Birds with 

 iiiiraes th'd-t 

 lielp to 

 identifi- 

 cation. 

 (Key 2.) 



No. 



Bird. 



10. 



n. 



12. 



13. 



Slioveller 

 Marbled Duck» 



Red -crested 

 Pochard. 



The Foe hard 



White-eyed 

 Duck. ■ 



Tufted Duck 



Approximate' .\rriva! 

 (earliest). 



Latter end of October 



Late October or early 

 November. 



Latter half of October 



Latter lialf of October 

 Last week of October... 



End of first half of 

 October 



Dute.^ of Departure 

 (latest). 



End of April. 



April or even late 

 May. 



Never after the end 

 of the first week of 

 April. 



Probably beginning 

 of April (Oates . 



March. 



About end of first 

 week of April 



15. By no means all the names, popular or scientific, 

 Englisli, Latin or Grreek, with wliicli birds have been 

 saddled help to identification. Among the Backs here 

 de-alt with, Mallard, Gadwall and (larganey are English 

 names that convey nothing to the ordinary person. No 

 Greek or Latin scholar is likely, on the face of them, to 

 make much out of some of the names invented or imported 

 from the dead languages, such as Nyroca. There are 

 however some names in all the toncfues laid under contri- 

 bution that do point to some permanent and distinctive 

 characteristic of the bird, and it may be worth while to 

 run through these. 



Pluiiiaqe accounts for Pintail in tlie English and 

 acida in the Latin name, the bird really having long, 

 pointed "pin "feathers in his tail; also for Marbled Duck 

 and marmarontUn, from the dappled plumage of this 

 species ; also, for obvious reasons, for Eed-erested Pochard ; 

 and for acuta in the name of the Gargancy Teal, from the 

 long, ])Ointed bluish-black, white-shafted outer scapulars 

 (shoulder- feathers) ; also iov ferruginea in the Latin naine 

 of the White-eyed Duck, from the deep rusty-red brown 

 head and surrounding parts ; also, for obvious reasons, for 

 Tufted Duck ; and, lastly, for fuligula in the Latin name 

 of the Tufted Duck from the "black colour of the upper 

 parts. 



* Note.— It IS not fit ;ill unlikelv, .•^ay.-^ Oates, that some birds of 

 this species may remain in the North-West parts of India during the 

 Summer. 



